Background: Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a small reducing gas molecule with various biological functions such as anti-oxidative, anti-apoptotic and anti-inflammatory activities. In this study, we investigated the therapeutic effects of exogenous H2S in the experimental models of retinal photodamage in vivo and in vitro. Methods: Rats with open eyelids were pretreated with H2S (80~120 μmol/kg) for 10 days and then continuously exposed to blue light (435~445nm, 11.2W/m2) for 8 h to establish in vivo experimental...

Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Length distribution of the unigenes. Fig. S2. Expression level distribution of the unigenes. Fig. S3. Correlations between samples. Fig. S4. Clustering of samples. Fig. S5. Venn plot of the expressed genes in each tissues. The overlapping regions represent common expressed genes in the same tissue of different individuals. Fig. S6. Number of DEGs in each COG category. Fig. S7. Number of DEGs in the corresponding GO terms. Fig. S8. Significantly...

Osteoarthritis (OA), an inflammatory response in chondrocytes, leads to extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation and cartilage destruction. Timosaponin B-II (TB-II) is the main bioactive component of Rhizoma Anemarrhenae with reported antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. This study investigated the anti-OA function and mechanism of TB-II on IL-1β-stimulated SW1353 cells and primary rat chondrocytes. We firstly screened the concentration of TB-II in SW1353 cells and primary rat chondrocytes using CCK-8 assay. Thereafter, SW1353 cells and chondrocytes were, respectively,...

In military manufacturing enterprises, exceptionally high product performance standards are generally met by using heat treatment followed by machining. These procedures are typically parallel batch-processing (BP) scheduling problems and job-shop problems, respectively. A mixed-integer nonlinear programming model is created to describe the problem with a machine availability constraint, which is divided into two stages: BP and machine processing (MP). Furthermore, an auction-based approach is developed in which jobs are categorized into batches during the BP...

To clarify the effects of mechanically dry direct-seeded rice (MD-DSR) through drilling and controlled-release compound fertilizer (CRF) on rice production, field experiments were carried out with mixed controlled-release urea; controlled-release potassium; and common urea, phosphorus and potash fertilizers as test materials. The experiment was implemented with a split-plot design, with fertilization modes as the main plots and two varieties (indica and japonica) as the subplots. The fertilization modes were a one-time application of CRF (denoted...

Microbially-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) has been studied extensively. However, the effect of different sources of magnesium ions on calcium carbonate biomineralization has rarely been examined. In this study, Lysinibacillus xylanilyticus DB1-12 bacteria isolated from petroleum samples were used to biomineralize calcium ions under the action of different sources of magnesium (magnesium chloride and magnesium sulfate). The results show that calcium ion precipitation ratios were much higher in MgSO4 group experiments than in the MgCl2...

Soil columns were designed to investigate the vertical migration of Cd in Indian mustard (IM) and tall fescue (TF). The TF biomass was greater than the IM biomass, and the Cd content in IM was higher in the shoots but lower in the roots than that in TF. Both IM and TF released N and absorbed P and K during outdoor growth, differing from the results of the previous experiment in which plants were grown...

Arsenic and cadmium pose a potential health risk to human beings via rice grain consumption. In the current study, a pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of Br (5 mM and 20 mM) and Se (1 mM) at rice tillering and filling stages on Cd and As accumulation in rice grain and their health risk indices. The results showed that Br or Se applications at different stages of rice improved the photosynthesis, reduce...

Resembling acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a unique subtype of APL who sharing clinical, morphological, and immunophenotypic features with typical APL, but lacking evidence of PML-RARA fusion gene and usually insensitive to arsenic trioxide (ATO) and all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA). For years, RARA, RARB and RARG rearrangement were found in resembling APL continually. The confirmed partner genes of RARG rearrangement included CPSF6, NUP98, NPM1, PML, and HNRNPC. These patients were a group of resembling APL...

A new type of carbazole-based blue-emitting dendritic conjugated polymer, poly[(9,9-dioctyl)-2,7-fluorene-co-4,4’,4”-triphenylamine-co-9-(4-(9H-carbazol-9-yl)butyl)-3,6-carbazole](P), was successfully synthesized by Suzuki coupling reaction. Chemical structures of monomers and polymer were verified by FI-IR and 1HNMR characterizations. We found that polymer showed a special selectivity and high sensitivity for I−. With the addition of I−, the fluorescent polymer solution was obviously quenched. The polymer showed a special detection effect on I−. However, the fluorescent polymer was obviously restored when Hg2+ was added...

Additional file 1: Table S1. Performance of the expression and methylation models applied to datasets from GEO. Table S2. Clinical baseline information of participants in the transcriptome sequencing and methylation microarray.

Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Funnel plot in themeta-analysis on the association of waist circumference between prematureovarian insufficiency and control group. Supplementary Figure 2. Funnel plot in the meta-analysis on the association of systolic blood pressure betweenpremature ovarian insufficiency and control group. Supplementary Figure 3. Funnel plot in the meta-analysis on the association of diastolic blood pressurebetween premature ovarian insufficiency and control group. Supplementary Figure 4. Funnel plot in the meta-analysis on the association...

Additional file 2: Supplementary table 1. PRISMA 2022 checklist.

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tct-10.1177_15330338221124658 for In Vitro and in Vivo Study of the Effect of Osteogenic Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields on Breast and Lung Cancer Cells by Mike Y. Chen, Jing Li, Nianli Zhang and Erik I. Waldorff, James T. Ryaby, Philip Fedor, Yongsheng Jia, Yujun Wang in Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment

Additional file 1. Supplementary figures and tables.

Additional file 1. Supplementary figures and tables.

Additional file 1: Table S1. Basic data of the number of dead mice treated with different doses of PFD. Table S2. Basic data of the number of dead mice treated with PFD and hUC-MSCs. Figure S1. Flow cytometry detection of surface mesenchymal stem cell markers of hUC-MSCs. Figure S2. The primitive view of the differentiation of hUC-MSCs. A: hUC-MSCs differentiated into chondrogenic cells. B: hUC-MSCs differentiated into osteogenic cells. C: hUC-MSCs differentiated into adipogenic cells....

Additional file 1: Table S1. Information of protein sequences used in alignment.

To measure the effect of maternal family history of hypertension on preterm birth (PTB) and to identify factors that modified this association. A case-control study was nested in a prospective cohort of the entire pregnant population in Wuhan, China, from 2011 to 2013. Home-visit interviews were scheduled for all PTBs and their controls, to collect extensive information on maternal exposures to behavioral, environmental, and intergenerational risk factors of PTB. The effects of maternal family history...

The perception of people with chronic kidney disease towards exercise and physical activity: a literature review

Additional file 15. Functional enrichment of overlapping and distinct sets of differentially expressed genes in the medial preoptic area (MPOA). In (A), the number of differentially expressed genes overlapping or distinct between all sets of sexually biased comparisons in the MPOA is depicted. For each set, the functional enrichments in gene ontologies of the biological processes (B), cellular components (C), and molecular functions (D) categories are displayed. ***p < 0.001, hypergeometric test for overlaps between...

Additional file 16. Representation of the number of genes differentially expressed in the medial preoptic area (MPOA, top), nucleus accumbens (NAc, middle), and lateral septum (LS, bottom) across all chromosomes and linkage groups in the prairie vole assembly. Only cases with at least one differentially expressed gene are depicted.

Additional file 1: Figure S1. Vessel densities of the whole measured area, parafovea, and four quadrants (temporal, superior, nasal, and inferior) in the (a, c) SCP and (b, d) DCP measured with optical coherence tomography angiography stratified by age in males and females. Table S1. Baseline characteristics of male participants in the study. Table S2. Baseline characteristics of female participants in the study. Table S3. Vessel densities of the whole measured area, parafovea, and four...

Additional file 1: Figure S1. The relationship between a healthy lifestyle and CMM in subgroup analyses. Figure S2. The relationship between a healthy lifestyle and CMM in seven sensitivity analyses. Figure S3. The frequency distribution graph of the weighted healthy lifestyle score for the whole population. Figure S4. The frequency distribution graph of the weighted healthy lifestyle score for 2/3 of the population. Figure S5. The frequency distribution graph of the sum healthy lifestyle score...

Additional file 1: Figure S1. Forest plots for the Mendelian randomization (MR) leave-one-out analysis of the significant inverse variance weighted (IVW) estimates. Within each panel, the black points represent the causal estimate of the association between a specific metabolite and epilepsy after discarding each SNP in turn. Red points represent the pooled IVW estimates. Horizontal lines denote 95% confidence intervals.